Digicult productions presents:

///SCREEN MUSIC PROGRAM
http://www.digicult.it/En/2006/ScreenMusic.asp

Festival della Creativita
November, 30th - December, 3rd 2006
Fortezza da Basso - Teatrino Lorenese
Florence

Free Entrance

Audio/Video Livesets: Sleeparchive, Otto Von Shirack, Errorsmith, Alex Drag=
ulescu, Motomichi Nakamura, Otolab, Kinotek, Boris&Brecht Debackere, Bern, =
Autobam/Tibor Fabian, Scary Grant, Micromusic 8 bit closing party

Screenings: Visual Music program (Semiconductor, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Reline 2=
, Tez, Karl Kliem, Meta, Jeffers Egan, Montevideo, Argos), Next Vision prog=
ram (SUE.C, Agf, Matmos, Scanner, City Pulse, One Minute Suite, Clip Art, N=
.Est), Zerofeedback

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Screen Music is an idea of Gianni De Simone and is curated by Marco Mancuso=
, the creator and director of Digicult (www.digicult.it), with the precious=
collaboration of Andrea Mi, director of Videominuto (www.videominuto.it) a=
nd Federica Linke from Basebog (www.basebog.it)

Screen Music is part of the programme of the Festival della Creativita (C=
reativity Festival) , a new and innovating public performance promoted by R=
egion Tuscany to affirm its role of "knot" in the net of global creativity,=
a "pop" event with a "high profile" communication that has the declared go=
al of becoming an interactive show window for the excellences of the differ=
ent creativity fields, of innovation and of research.

In contemporary experimentation within new multimedia areas, artists invite=
d to present their recent video productions and to realize live shows insid=
e the marvellous location of Teatrino Lorenese della Fortezza da Basso in F=
lorence , represent in different ways perfect examples of what today is sai=
d to be considered the most advances electronic research.


///LIVE PERFORMANCES:

Music, video, audiovisual synaesthesis, spirit of research, improvisation, =
design; elements that are present in each of the projects showed in Screen =
Music in an emotive crescendo starting from glitch and algid audio-video ex=
perimentations realized by artists such as the Italian project IDNLNY of th=
e duo Autobam/Eclat, the Belgian electronic brothers Boris & Brecht Debacke=
re with their incredible performance Rotor and the electronic audiovisual e=
xperimentation group from Milan Otolab who will present the new project Op7=
developed on the subject of The Seven Heavenly Palaces of the artist Ansel=
m Kiefer, following in the chaotic and absolutely live sound stream of real=
geniuses such as Errorsmith , the American experimenter Otto Von Shirak , =
and the new phenomenon of minimal techno, the German Sleeparchive .

Finally, the rhythmic compulsions of djs and experimenters of electronic be=
at such as the wholly Italian new project Scary Grant (ex Eclat) , the Fren=
ch dj of the moment Bern and the crazy group of 8bit micromusic in Micromus=
ic Closing A/V party (music realized with the old Atari by Stu and Schmx, a=
nd videos realized with an old style Amiga by Otro).

The vj sets of some of the best national and international talented artists=
will accompany the performances of all the musicians : designers and video=
-artists who will build instantly the perfect scenarios, perfect to go with=
the widespread sounds of the Teatrino Lorenese. The renowned project Kinot=
ek of Mattia Casalegno , the Japanese genius Motomichi Nakamura and the Rom=
anian Alex Dragulescu , will know how to combine live the visual demands wh=
ich is the central element of this kind of events with the spirit of improv=
isation and technique, which has changed the vjing from background element =
of the early days to major pawn of the present area of the media
performances.


///SCREENINGS:

A rich programme of projections with the video works of some of the interna=
tional major figures of the contemporary digital creativity will open each =
of the three days of the festival.

- Visual Music is an exhibition managed by Mancuso for Digicult and request=
ed by Festival Dissonanze 2006 , organized as an articulated path of utiliz=
ation of the spontaneous and relentless analysis process which has characte=
rized the audio-visual research of the last years, involving artists and pr=
ojects which are part of performative which seem more fit to take our feeli=
ngs towards the probable aesthetics of tomorrow. The monograph area regards=
artists like Karl Kliem, Semiconductor, Ryoichi Kurokawa and Jeffers Egan,=
which are considered essential for the development of the most updated dig=
ital aesthetics, while programmes as Montevideo, Argos and Reline 2 Project=
represent many of the collaborations between musicians and visual designer=
s from which we must expect the most advanced hypothesis of the audio-visua=
l culture.

- Next Vision is a programme realized by Andrea Mi for the XIV edition of V=
ideominuto as a combination of research and experimentation in different ar=
eas of electronic production: the poetic shots of SUE.C accompanied by the =
music of AGF , the Slomo videos of Matmos and Scanner which play with the c=
oncept of slowed down time, musical videoclip of the programme ClipArt , an=
d the audio-video jams of One Minute Suite , and the Chilean urban symphoni=
es of City Pulse and the Parthenopean ones of N.est .

Zerofeedback is a total preview of Screen Music dedicated to the first of t=
he homonymous net-label, developed as a collection of audio-visual projects=
on DVD, realized in cooperation with the Japanese label Dejine-rec regardi=
ng the idea of social networks with Italian artists (among others Progetto =
Antenna, Besegher, Influx) and musicians (from Japan, England and the Unite=
d
States) part of the community of Myspace.


///PROGRAMME:

- THURSDAY 30th November 2006

19.00 - 20.30:
Videoscreenings:
Visual Music Program - Monografie: Tez, Jeffers Egan - 60'
Next Vision - AGF+Sue.C (Ger) / Clip Art / One Minute Suite #4 - 30'

23.00 - 00.00:
Audovideo performance:
Autobam/Elec- Italy (IDNLNY)

00.00 - 01.00:
Live set + Video set
Errorsmith (Germany) + Kinotek (Italy)

01.00 - 02.30:
Dj set + Vj set
Bern (France) + Kinotek (Italy)

- FRIDAY 1st December 2006

19.00 - 20.30:
Videoscreenings:
Visual Music Program - Monografie: Karl Kliem, Semiconductor - 60'
Next Vision - The Next Big Idea (Usa) / Slo-Mo (USA) - 30'

23.00 - 00.00
Audiovideo performance:
Boris&Brecht Debackere - Belgium (ROTOR)

00.00 - 01.00
Live set + Video set
Otto Von Schirack (Usa) + Motomichi Nakamura (Usa/Japan)

01.00 - 02.30
Dj set + Vj set
Scary Grant (Italia) + Motomichi Nakamura (Usa/Japan)

- SATURDAY 2nd December 2006

23.00 - 00.00
Audiovideo performance
Otolab - Italy (op7)

00.00 - 01.00
Live set + Vj set
Sleeparchive (Germany) + Alex Dragulescu (Usa/Romania)

01.00 - 02.30
Micromusic Closing 8 Bit Party
Stu + Schmx + Tonylight + Otro - Switzerland/France/Italy

- SUNDAY 3rd December 2006

18.00 - 22.00
Videoscreenings:
Visual Music Program - Monografie: Reline 2 project, Ryoichi Kurokawa,
Meta.am - 90'
Visual Music Program - Montevideo Program / Argos program - 50'
Next Vision - City Pulse (Chile) / N.est (Ita) - 40'
Zerofeedback (Ita/UK/Jap/USA) - 50'

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Marco Mancuso
Journalist, critic, curator
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Digicult Director
Label electronic music editor
Mixed Meda festival curator
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